Oh I'm all for quality, and it can be from any era. The thing is that those old themes don't appeal to me at all. It's largely to do with the palette. They give the feeling of sitting in a rubbish dump on a cold, grey day: thoroughly dismal.
Of course, I'm the sort of bloke who likes Art Deco and thinks Bauhaus is crap.

I agree that in terms of design in general Babylon is a classic. Not sure about the others.